My final feelings of the novel The Grapes of Wrath are filled with mixed emotions. I feel like it was unfinished. Like what ever even happened to the Joad family? I absolutley hate and despise books that have no definite ending especially if the author is not going to write a second book explaining what is ever going to happen. Like seriously. Come on. I honestly would of rather had them all die by starvation or drowning or something. Yes, that would have been a horrifying ending and my heart would of hurt for the Joad family but at least I would of known what would of happened.
Since the author did not give us a definite ending(Steinbeck450). I guess I will have to write my own in my head. Obviously as a reader feeling very sympathetic for the Joad family you want them to overcome everything they had been fighting for. I wish that the author had one last chapter that was a happy ending. That all the family could go back to where the came from and have money to do what they wanted and that they could have their farm back and it be successful. That ending is a little far fetched...but hey a girl can wish. If the book would of ended that way it would of showed the reader that if you do not give up and you try to perservere and you stay together as a family that you can really overcome anything.
I actually wish that the author could of gave us readers something inbetween, something realistic. I just hate being left there wondering what happened to all these characters i feel as if i have met and known for the past few weeks i was reading it. It is just frustrating as a reader to not have closure with the book and have a real ending. Steinbeck was really catching my eye as a very good author until he left me haning at the end...but hey nobody is perfect.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.
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